Product Engineering

Presenters Sylvain Kalache Source Conf42 SRE 2026 🚀 The SRE Survival Guide in the Age of GenAI: Navigating the 100x Code Explosion The world of software engineering is moving at a breakneck pace. As of late 2025, the landscape has shifted permanently. Microsoft reports that 30% of their codebase is now written by Generative AI (GenAI), while Anthropic reports a staggering 90%. In mid-2025, the founder of Cursor noted that users accepted 1 billion lines of code every single day. ...

Presenters Murali Varma Source Conf42 SRE 2026 Unlocking Frontend Reliability: Why Your UI Needs SRE Thinking! 🚀 Hello, fellow tech enthusiasts! Ever found yourself wrestling with a slow, clunky web application, even when the backend feels lightning-fast? You’re not alone! Many of us in the tech world have, and it turns out that frontend performance isn’t just about pretty pixels; it’s a critical operational reliability challenge. Today, we’re diving deep into a fascinating talk by Murali Varma, a Senior Staff Software Engineer at Galileo Financial Technologies. Murali unveils how Galileo transformed their agent-facing platforms by applying hardcore Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles to their frontend architecture. Get ready to rethink everything you thought you knew about client-side performance! ...

Presenters Yury Lysak Source Conf42 SRE 2026 Revolutionizing Personalization: Beyond Silent Failures and Black Swans 🚀 Hey tech enthusiasts! Ever wondered how AI systems that personalize your experience can go wrong, especially when the stakes are sky-high and the client base is tiny? Yury Lysak, Head of Strategic Projects at Lansol Global, dives deep into this critical challenge, sharing invaluable insights from his journey in telco, retail, and now wealth tech. Get ready to explore how to build reliable, proactive SR (Service Reliability) practices for AI-driven personalization, even when facing silent failures and unpredictable black swan events! 💡 ...

Presenters Sanjay Basu Source Conf42 SRE 2026 From Experiment to Mission-Critical: Operationalizing LLMs at Scale in Retail with Sanjay Basu Hey tech enthusiasts! Ever wonder what happens when cutting-edge AI moves beyond the lab and into the bustling world of retail? It’s a game-changer, but not without its unique challenges. Today, we’re diving deep with Sanjay Basu from TCS, a brilliant mind in the retail and AI vertical, as he unravels the complexities of operationalizing Large Language Models (LLMs) at scale, especially within the dynamic realm of cognitive commerce. ...

Presenters Stuart Clark Source Conf42 SRE 2026 Scale or Fail: How Spotify Solved the Abstraction Paradox 🚀 In the high-stakes world of software engineering, we often treat abstraction as our greatest ally. We build layers to hide complexity, simplify workflows, and help our teams move faster. But what happens when those very abstractions become your biggest enemy during a 3:00 a.m. critical incident? Stuart Clark, Senior Developer Advocate at Spotify, recently shared a compelling story about how Spotify nearly fell into the abstraction trap and how they engineered their way out of it. This isn’t just a story about code; it’s about scaling operational knowledge across thousands of engineers. ...